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| StorSimple provides a hybrid cloud storage appliance that provides enterprises a gateway, or on-ramp, to cloud storage services, for their on-premises Microsoft applications via iSCSI. StorSimple couples automated tiering, primary storage deduplication, and SSDs/SAS to maintain on-premises storage performance and cloud clones to simplify backup. |
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| Building an Enterprise Architecture For Secure High-Performance Hybrid Cloud Storage | |
| by Ian Howells | |
| The only thing predictable about storage requirements is that they will be unpredictable and much bigger than you could possibly imagine. To manage this growth, the focus must shift to managing “Big Content” ... | |
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| May 10 2012 |
| With today's announcement of HP Cloud Services moving to Public Beta IT organizations have an important addition to the list of cloud service providers to pick from in the months ahead. And it's a name that they are very familiar with for a wide variety of use cases and business challeng ... read more >> |
| May 08 2012 |
| Cisco Systems recently published the results of a survey of 1300 IT professionals on cloud priorities and challenges. The survey results can be found here
One of the things that really stands out is that customers see Cloud service providers like Amazon, Azure, Google; industry analysts an ... read more >> |
| March 07 2012 |
| What vendors like CommVault and Riverbed are not telling you.
Cloud Backup works provides a good way for consumers and small businesses to backup their data. However, at enterprise data volumes where primary data sets run in 10s and 100s of TB, traditional cloud backup does not work. The reasons are – recovery times are unacceptably long and that cloud backup does not reduce data protection costs.
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| March 06 2012 |
| At the Ignition Partners event in Seattle yesterday, I asked Om Malik what he thought happens to the storage business in this cloud transition. Om’s response was that the $50 billion of gross margin in enterprise storage is ripe for disruption with the transition to Amazon and Azure. He added that storage will move from the capex towards the opex model and predicted that th ... read more >> |
| March 02 2012 |
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StorSimple customers like the fact that our systems do things for them that with legacy storage would take eit ... read more >> |
| February 28 2012 |
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If you want to check out an incredible technology facility, visit the nearest Microsoft Technology Center (MTC). I went to the Mountain View, CA MTC today with my co-worker Burzin Patel and we ... read more >> |
| February 15 2012 |
| We all like a little recognition from time to time and we are excited to receive the 2011 Product of the Year in the Storage Systems Categ ... read more >> |
| February 01 2012 |
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It's a bird, it's a plane, no.... it's cloud storage!
This week marks the beginning of my journey into cloud storage - and I expect this journey to be incredibly interesting, with many things to learn about cloud services and unlearn about legacy stora ... read more >> |
| January 25 2012 |
| It’s been exciting to watch the news and buzz surrounding Amazon’s release of their AWS Storage Gateway today. Sweeping industry changes start with an inflection point of some kind and Amazon’s announcement enables cloud integrated enterprise storage to become a mainstream architecture. While there have been a number of companies, including StorSimple, working to develop this technology, there’s nothing like havin ... read more >> |
| January 19 2012 |
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Sundance Institute was in need of more storage capacity and the IT team was challenged trying to keep up with backing up the existing storage. Compounding this was the annual Sundance Film Festival during which the staff doubles, storage needs become much greater, and festival logistics ramp-u ... read more >> |
| January 19 2012 |
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StorSimple is pleased to be a corporate sponsor of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival which opens this week. Through year-round programs, Sundance Institute seeks to discover and develop independent artists and audiences and to provide a platform for artists to present their works to a global audience—the Sundan ... read more >> |
| January 05 2012 |
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| December 12 2011 |
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StorSimple today announced support for the OpenStack ecosystem and specifically for Rackspace Cloud Files. ( ... read more >> |
| December 02 2011 |
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CPP Selects StorSimple for SharePoint and File Share Cloud Integra ... read more >> |
| November 28 2011 |
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MedPlast, a leading medical devices company, was challenged when their existing backup targets were becoming full and backup windows were getting longer and long ... read more >> |
| September 01 2011 |
| VMworld 2011 was a great event and the cloud was center stage.
StorSimple was named "Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist in the Business Continuity and Data Protection" category and was the only Storage System finalist showing the ever growing importance of cloud storage.
Guru Pangal, Co-founder and President received the award on stage and is pictured here:
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| August 26 2011 |
| StorSimple will be showcasing its VMware Ready Enterprise Cloud Storage at VMworld in Las Vegas, August 29th to September 1st on stand # 671.
On the stand you will be able see:
StorSimple's award winning Enterprise Cloud Storage - Live demo
How StorSimple puts some vMotion into your cloud ... read more >> |
| July 05 2011 |
| The cloud is for Microsoft what the services business became for IBM. It will be the engine of growth for Microsoft for the next 20 years. It takes Microsoft’s core competency that enables enterprises to manage their information to drive productivity and takes that business from being a product sale to a turnkey solution sale. Microsoft has tremendous assets for this battle - deep customer relationships, a massive install base and a hung ... read more >> |
| December 17 2010 |
| Rockford Construction Operates in 43 States with nearly half of its employees remote. Rockford Construction knew that IT would be a core way that it could differentiate itself from its competitors. They selected SharePoint as the way to give their many field representatives access to all information about projects in real time while on site and to provide a repository for archiving based on a ten-year retention policy.
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| December 09 2010 |
| StorSimple hit the headlines this week. The company announced the immediate availability of the StorSimple 1000, 5000 and 7000 series of application-optimized cloud storage appliances. Deployed on-premise, these devices utilize an innovative “cloud-as-a-tier” a ... read more >> |
| October 29 2010 |
| The cloud is a once in a decade shift and the acceleration continues with some people speeding ahead and others debating the differences between IaaS and PaaS. Virtualization has become synonymous with the cloud and this week VMware delivered its private cloud vision predicting the world will evolve from virtualised servers to private clouds. Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 will now run in the cloud and compared ... read more >> |
| October 22 2010 |
| It has been an interesting week for cloud storage and cloud computing. Interop discussed the cloud and came to the conclusion that "Hybrid Clouds Will Rule", which is a pragmatic approach that most people agree with that dramatically accelerates the time to cloud deployment. Licensing and pricing is one of the most discussed subjects on the cloud. Traditional vendors are fed on upfront license fees of software that often sits on a s ... read more >> |
| October 08 2010 |
| It has been a very interesting week for me. I have been talking to a number of analysts, listening to and reading to research on the cloud market space.
Nearly all organisations have a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy and historically this has been done on tape that is stored offsite. This thing about disasters is that by their nature you can't predict them. One (great) analyst had two great stories about disa ... read more >> |
| October 01 2010 |
| StorSimple hit the headlines earlier this month as Mayfield Fund, the original investor in 3PAR led the $13m series B funding in StorSimple. Storsimple made news in Fortune Magazine, The New York Times, Xconomy, VentureBeat, The Silicon Valley Business Journal and the mega blog GigaOM.
Since then StorSimple has been named as one of the ... read more >> |
| October 01 2010 |
| Cloud computing and cloud storage continue to be hot topics. The Oracle,sSalesforce soap opera that we discussed last week has continued. Larry Ellison contends virtualization is an essential component of the cloud and, by that measure, Salesforce.com fails, while Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud wins.
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| September 24 2010 |
| This week in the cloud has been dominated by Oracle World and the legendary Larry Ellison.
He kicked off with "Ellison announces 'one big, honking' cloud". The Exalogic Elastic Cloud, a system containing 30 servers, each loaded with two six-cor ... read more >> |
| September 21 2010 |
| Customers considering use of a cloud storage gateway or on-ramp device such as StorSimple may be misled to believe that all devices are the same. Truth be told, there are a number of fundamental differences in the architecture used by these devices that may not be evident upon first glance, but manifest themselves as either undesirable behavior or unwanted complexity in configuration or ongoing management.
One such difference is w ... read more >> |
| September 16 2010 |
| It has been a busy time for the cloud, cloud storage and the applications that generate the content for the cloud. Interesting articles on the cloud, Amazon, Windows Azure, 3PAR, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
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| September 14 2010 |
| StorSimple hit the headlines this week. The 3PAR original investor Mayfield Fund announced that it had led a series B funding in StorSimple. The $13m brings the total funding to $21m. Participation in this round included new investor Ignition Partners and existing investors ... read more >> |
| September 14 2010 |
| Howells’ Appointment Follows $13 Million Series B Funding to Accelerate Expansion Plans
StorSimple announced today that it has appointed Ian Howells as chief marketing officer. An industry veteran with 25 years of experience at leading companies such as Ingres, Documentum, SeeBeyond and Alfresco, Howells will be responsible for the StorSimple marketing strategy and operational activities globally. ... read more >> |
| September 13 2010 |
| StorSimple to Accelerate Expansion Plans in High-Growth Cloud Storage Market
StorSimple announced today that it has raised $13 million in Series B funding round led by Mayfield Fund, bringing the company’s total funding to $21 million. Participation in this round included new investor Ignition Partners and both existing investors: ... read more >> |
| August 27 2010 |
| Many organizations are considering use of cloud storage to help simplify their data storage environments, improve data protection, and reduce overall costs. However, many challenges still exist with using cloud storage natively for traditional on-premises applications that drive businesses today, and security remains as a concern in terms of data privacy, confidentiality, and control.
A number of cloud storage on-ramp, or c ... read more >> |
| August 27 2010 |
| Many of us didn't feel comfortable doing our online banking until encryption using SSL became commonplace. While no one can 'guarantee' the privacy that is provided by encryption, it does provide us with the comfort of knowing that a large number of brilliant minds spent a massive amount of time coming up with a mechanism by which we could establish trust in a world of insecure communication, allowing us to authenticate the website we we ... read more >> |
| July 29 2010 |
| A common question when cloud storage is discussed is "will my applications run slower with cloud storage?". It's a very valid question, and the answer to that question requires examination of many key elements of the application behavior, the network, any intermediary devices (including cloud storage gateway devices or on-ramp devices like StorSimple), and of course, the cloud storage provider.
Looking at typical application deployment ... read more >> |
| July 14 2010 |
| Addressing Performance, Availability, Data Protection, and Security Concerns in Cloud Storage Environments ... read more >> |
| July 07 2010 |
| In the past two episodes of cloud storage 101 (ep1, ep2), we discussed what cloud storage is, what value it provides, and an ov ... read more >> |
| July 01 2010 |
| In our last blog post, episode 1 - "what the heck is cloud storage?", we discussed what cloud storage is and some of its attributes. Based on those, it's apparent why many corporations are interested in being able to take advantage of cloud stor ... read more >> |
| June 30 2010 |
| Welcome to the first part of Cloud Storage 101, episode #1, "What the heck is cloud storage?". Unfortunately I don't have Lucasfilm's budget so I'm unable to provide a Star Wars entrance for this series, but even if I did, I'm not sure if you would consider it unique, corny, interesting, or what. In any case, in this series we're going to focus on providing a 5,000 foot view of various aspects of cloud storage. It won't be all encompassing, bu ... read more >> |
| June 25 2010 |
| StorSimple named 'Top Ten Data Storage Startup' by Enterprise Storage Forum
We're humbled by Drew Robb's article on Enterprise Storage Forum today, naming StorSimple as one of ten top data storage startups. This helps to validate that customers do see storage-related issues that plague their applications from being able to be deployed at scale and at reasonable cost. St ... read more >> |
| June 21 2010 |
| Are you prepared for Exchange 2010 storage?
A number of changes in Exchange 2010 when compared to earlier versions drive massive increases in capacity consumption. These include Database Availability Groups (DAG), removal of Single Instance Storage (SIS), integrated archival, ... read more >> |
| May 05 2010 |
| StorSimple Announces Cloud Storage Partnerships
Today we are announcing partnerships with key cloud storage providers, which will help us bring to market an integrated solution that allows customers to address real-world application-specific storage issues that hinder performance, scalability, and d ... read more >> |
| April 13 2010 |
| Nice article by David Ferris on Exchange 2010, DAG, and StorSimple
Nice brief article by David Ferris on how some of the changes from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 will inevitably impact customer storage architectures for this mission critical application. Some things to consider with Exchange 2010:
The Exchange high availability and failover model i ... read more >> |
| April 08 2010 |
| Great article by Beth Pariseau of SearchStorage.com
Hi all,
Beth Pariseau wrote a nice article on StorSimple, which is currently featured on the front page as the top headline on TechTarget's SearchStorage. Check it out!
http://www.se ... read more >> |
| April 08 2010 |
| Introducing StorSimple's Revolutionary Application-Optimized Hybrid Storage Solution
Today is an exciting today for a group of people that have been tucked away for almost a year building what we consider to be technology that has the potential to positively impact certain application environments and dramatically simplify storage management, improve performance consistency, an ... read more >> |
| April 05 2010 |
| Great article on how cloud optimizes backup TCO
Very good article from Jeff Boles @ Taneja discussing at a high level how cloud storage services are helping to address the total cost of ownership of data protection. When you factor in the many various elements of cost, complexity, and failure surface of traditional data protection, it's no surprise that the clou ... read more >> |
| February 18 2010 |
| Cloud Storage and Security
I/T organizations today are examining the use of cloud storage services to take advantage of the economic efficiencies, pricing flexibility, and management simplicity that they provide. However, any discussion around cloud security inevitably ends with a serious examination of data security. Several questions are raised, seemingly without answers, including: ... read more >> |
| February 08 2010 |
| Optimized storage for Microsoft SharePoint
On January 13th 2010 we demonstrated the end to end operation of our optimized storage appliance for SharePoint workloads for the first time at the Bay Area Database developers (BADD) monthly meeting. The demo included a fully operational SharePoint 2007 farm configured to use the StorSimple storage appliance. The demo wa ... read more >> |
| January 20 2010 |
| Survey: Half of storage customers considering cloud
Very interesting article on Network World, discussing a survey performed by CommVault who has been very successful in the data protection space. Their survey indicates that half of storage customers are considering use of cloud storage services to help with disaster recovery, replace/augment/simplify data protect ... read more >> |
| January 18 2010 |
| Microsoft and Intel push 1M IOPS with iSCSI and 10Gbps Ethernet
Does this signal the end of FC and FCoE? Highly unlikely, as FC is widely deployed and entrenched into today's data center architectures. However, this does show that over the past eight years (has iSCSI really been around that long?!) iSCSI has matured and evolved, and now provides a cost-compe ... read more >> |
| November 14 2009 |
| Very Productive Day
A few of us spent the better part of the day in the office preparing our first prototype unit for a meeting that we're having next week. Serial number 000000001 - yes, that's a lot of zeros - but we're planning on having to use up that number space completely :)
We still have a lot of work to do, but we've made outstanding progress. ... read more >> |
| October 01 2009 |
| Public vs private clouds - or both?
Tons of discussion on the blogosphere regarding public vs private clouds. Most people that I talk to are coming to the opinion that each has valid use cases and that most customers will use a hybrid approach based on their application and user requirements. Good but brief blog on the topic here: ... read more >> |
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